EAN: 9780063001695

APOCALYPSE NEVER - MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER GEBUNDEN

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not
even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a
greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created
the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists
and activists to keep nuclear plants operating  preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019 
as some claimed ?billions of people are going to die ? contributing to rising anxiety 
including among adolescents  Shellenberger decided that  as a lifelong environmental activist 
leading energy expert  and father of a teenage daughter  he needed to speak out to separate
science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention  many remain ignorant of basic
facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a
decade. Deaths from extreme weather  even in poor nations  declined 80 percent over the last
four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely
thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously  the people who are the
most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. What's really
behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There
are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular
people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching
fear without love  and guilt without redemption  the new religion is failing to satisfy our
deepest psychological and existential needs.

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